[TUHS] Re: What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?

[Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>]

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For day-to-day (email, web, blah blah) I keep a relatively current MacOS
box.  In addition I keep a ‘toy data center’ - a set of four NUC machines
running Ubuntu on which I keep my various system management projects and
development projects.  They are all headless, so I have a small hdmi
display I plug in when I need to do release upgrades and other tasks that
require a ‘console’.
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:10 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> "Jeffry R. Abramson" <jeffryrabramson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering what
> > do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs?
>
> I run Ubuntu Mate.  All the nice features of Ubuntu, plus a more
> normal UI and everything just works.  In particular it handles
> current hardware (laptops, wifi, etc) fine, as well as knowing about
> network printers, generally without problems. I work with a bunch
> of terminal windows with Bash and gvim for editing, evince for viewing
> PDFs and a web browser.
>
> If you want a more do-it-yourself kind of feel, you might try some
> variant of Plan 9; the 9front fork is the most actively developed.
> Plan 9 has ben on my to-do list for a few decades now; maybe once
> I retire I'll actually get to it. :-) Be forewarned that there's
> a learning curve there, Plan 9 is most definitely NOT Unix.
>
> HTH,
>
> Arnold
>

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